Swimming board



R. B. NICHOLS.

SW|MMING BOARD.

APPLlCATlON mm 3.5, 1921.

1 ,402 529, Patented Jan. 3, 1922,

INVENTOR ATTORNEY I U ITED ROYAL BAIRLOW NICHOLS, OFEASTL'YNE, AssAcHtjIsE'rTs.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern v useful Improvements in Swimming Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to abuoyant device for facilitating swimming, the general object of the invention beingto construct a body of buoyant material and so formed that a person can support himself thereon while in the Water so that he can teach himself to swim or aswimmer canjuse the same to rest himself;

Another object of the invention is to. fshape the body so that it can be shoved v, through the water; Withthe leastipossible jg resistance to its passage by the water. i Y 20 This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the iseveral parts, to be hereinafter fully described,

illustrated in the accompanying drawings claim. r V r In descrlblng my invention 1n deta1l,ref

and specifically pointed out in the appended erence will be had to'ther accompanylng drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout thesev ering the cork, a cross piece provided "at the center offthe body and having its ends v secured to the frame and the frame being a suitably secured to the'cork filling, said body; I. having its ends pointed so that thewater eral views, and in which structed in accordance with my invention Figure 2 is an edge view with parts broken away toshow the construction.

As shown in these views the device is formed of a frame 1 anda filling 2 of cork ispeifiqttifn L f if atent. a Application 11 66155 1 face of the Water; 7

It 1s thought from the foregoing descrip- SWIMMING BOARD.

I Patented 1921; a Serial m. ,714.

I with its "edges offsubstantially elliptical Be itlmown that I, ROYAL B. Nionons; a citizen of theUnited States, residing atf East Lynn, in the county of Lynn and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented new and forinft providefpointed ends sogthat the water w1ll offer but little resistance to the and the corkis covered by canvas or the the device I place a cross piece 5 at the. ceriter of the, body which has its endssecured to the frame, the frame being also suitably secured to the cork filling. V

This device is made large enough to sup?- Jan. 3,1922} g p {45' i like, as shown at 4. In order to strengthen port a person in'the water so that he {can I teach himself to swim or a swimmer can guse the device to support himself at the "surtionthat the advantages and novel features Ij'de'sire' itl' to be understood that Ifmay make changesin theconstruction and in of my invention willbe readily apparent; j t

several parts; provided that such changes" fall within clalm. p

IVhat I claim is":- V

A deviceof the class described comprisand a fillingof buoyantmaterial; the ends being t1ppedwith metal and aycanvascovwill offer little resistance to the passage w the body therethrough or other buoyant material. ,The body is 7 formed with flat upper and lower surfaces In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

the scopes-of the appended .ing a frame ofsubstantially elliptical shape 

